I learned to write script before cursive. Most people do, I suppose.
I don’t remember it being a particularly difficult task. I remember the inkwell on the desk, dipping pen in, then putting it to paper. My handwriting style was nurtured and guided by my teacher, Mrs Beckford. Long tailed letters like ‘y’s & ‘p’s were not to overlap with the letters on the lines below. That was the rule of the stern Mrs Beckford. Not abiding by this rule meant her writing corrections in red ink all over your paper, which meant it had to be rewritten.
My handwriting is a mix of script and cursive. This is quite odd looking. I often wondered why that was. I never consciously put Mrs Beckford in the mix. But clearly, she has been lingering.
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Pat R
1/23/17
For dVerse Poets Pub where thoughts turn to: Handwriting
Thanks for sharing your experience of learning to write, Pat, and for the handwritten note – I’ve enjoyed seeing other poets’ writing! Your teacher was stern, too. We always remember the nice teachers and the disciplinarians but never the ones in between.
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You are right about that. I remember having nicknames for the ones in between. Among us kids we all knew it. But we dared not say it out loud. It was always whispered…kids…we had some nerve.😊
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I wonder too… and I wonder if I know how to write by hand any longer… I will need to practice. But i do remember when we had tor exercise filling books with all the same letter.
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Ah, yes! There was that too☺.
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Groovy.. 😎🥀
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Thanks Dorna☺
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Yes, sometimes our teachers teachings live on in us…
Anna :o]
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That they do.
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So you had something simpler than a fountain pen to write with.
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LoL! It seems the ball point pen showed up and blew all else away.☺☺
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I enjoyed reading how your teacher nurtured you handwriting and you, this was a very endearing haibun.
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Thank you, glad you liked it☺. Thanks for joining me down memory lane.
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I suspect my handwriting (mainly cursive) has traces of script, too. Must go check. So much that we do unconsciously has traces of those who have influenced us in the past.
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So true, to this day grammatical errors, starting a sentence with ‘and’ ..makes me think Mrs Beckford would not be happy☺
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I dimly remember the writing lessons. My handwriting was never pretty, and it has disintegrated to a hopeless scribble. Thank heaven for the mighty keyboard!
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I do my writing these days on the memo app of my phone. More portable. The problem is they add up fast. Now there over 300.😊. I am trying to figure out a way to get them off and onto my laptop.
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